A majority of the Commission have children, and all of us have had the uniquely painful experience of flying with other people's children nearby...

Thus, we feel that BA got this completely backwards. While passengers may not want to admit it, given the opportunity to pay more for a seat that had no children nearby -- particularly none in the seat behind them, with their seemingly limitless desire to kick -- they most certainly would pay more. In fact, depending on the route -- any flight to Orlando, FL comes immediately to mind -- passengers without children might be willing to pay nearly double to fly without children nearby...

Yet under the British Airways plan, parents will be given an incentive inflict their children on other fliers, unsupervised...making other passengers' flights less pleasant as well. Score another one for Virgin Atlantic...!